PACB
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PACB is the stock ticker symbol for Pacific Biosciences of California, a biotechnology company known for its advanced DNA sequencing technologies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PACB canonical | 2 |
| NASDAQ:PACB | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3582330 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PACB Context triple: [Pacific Biosciences, tickerSymbol, PACB]
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A.
PAC
PAC is a South African liberation movement and political party founded in 1959 as a breakaway from the African National Congress, advocating for African nationalism and pan-Africanism.
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B.
PAC
PAC is the stock ticker symbol for Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a major Mexican airport operator that manages multiple airports in the Pacific region.
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C.
PAC
PAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Pacific Division, a grouping of teams in various North American professional sports leagues.
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D.
PAC-1
PAC-1 is the first major operational configuration of the U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missile system, introducing enhanced capabilities for air defense against aircraft and limited missile threats.
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E.
Pac
Pac is the widely used nickname of Tupac Shakur, the influential American rapper, actor, and cultural icon.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PACB Target entity description: PACB is the stock ticker symbol for Pacific Biosciences of California, a biotechnology company known for its advanced DNA sequencing technologies.
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A.
PAC
PAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Pacific Division, a grouping of teams in various North American professional sports leagues.
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B.
PAC
PAC is the stock ticker symbol for Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a major Mexican airport operator that manages multiple airports in the Pacific region.
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C.
PAC
PAC is a South African liberation movement and political party founded in 1959 as a breakaway from the African National Congress, advocating for African nationalism and pan-Africanism.
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D.
PAC-1
PAC-1 is the first major operational configuration of the U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missile system, introducing enhanced capabilities for air defense against aircraft and limited missile threats.
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E.
Pac
Pac is the widely used nickname of Tupac Shakur, the influential American rapper, actor, and cultural icon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biotechnology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| applicationArea |
de novo genome assembly
ⓘ
epigenetics ⓘ structural variant detection ⓘ transcriptomics ⓘ whole-genome sequencing ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Illumina
ⓘ
surface form:
Illumina, Inc.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies ⓘ Thermo Fisher Scientific ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| develops |
bioinformatics software
ⓘ
long-read DNA sequencing technologies ⓘ sequencing consumables ⓘ sequencing instruments ⓘ |
| focusesOn | single-molecule real-time DNA sequencing ⓘ |
| formerName | Nanofluidics, Inc. ⓘ |
| founded | 2004 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
David H. Tu
ⓘ
Eric Schadt ⓘ John F. Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Rothberg ⓘ Stephen Turner ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Pacific Biosciences
ⓘ
surface form:
PacBio
|
| hasCustomerSegment |
academic research institutions
ⓘ
biotechnology companies ⓘ clinical research laboratories ⓘ pharmaceutical companies ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
HiFi long-read sequencing
ⓘ
SMRT Cell ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Menlo Park, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Menlo Park, California, United States
|
| industry |
DNA sequencing
ⓘ
biotechnology ⓘ genomics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Pacific Biosciences
ⓘ
surface form:
Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing
|
| listedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| product |
Onso System
ⓘ
Revio System ⓘ Sequel IIe System ⓘ
surface form:
Sequel II System
Sequel IIe System ⓘ Sequel System ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| represents |
Pacific Biosciences
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
|
| specializesIn | high-accuracy long-read sequencing ⓘ |
| stockTicker | PACB self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| tradedAs |
PACB
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NASDAQ:PACB
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: PACB Description of subject: PACB is the stock ticker symbol for Pacific Biosciences of California, a biotechnology company known for its advanced DNA sequencing technologies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
NASDAQ:PACB
subject surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.